Barth in Retirement

The greatest living Protestant theologian retired from his professorship
at the University of Basel last year, presumably with nothing to do
but listen to Mozart records and finish the 13th volume of his
masterwork, Church Dogmatics. But at the age of 77, Karl Barth
(TIME cover, April 20, 1962) has found himself so busy that he wonders
if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a
trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz
Restaurant. He keeps up...